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Hey retouching gods, I shot a model/actor/whatever and he wanted to make a couple of his photos into headshots. This is what turned out for one of them  Couple questions: 1. What do you think? 2. I did some facial reconstruction, is it super obvious? Does his face look weird? I'm not sure I did it perfectly, but I think I did a pretty good job. I basically took left eye copied it and made it his right eye along with the the whole half of the face. 3. Anything I need to fix in it? 4. I can give you guys the photoshop file if that'll help. 5. If you were that guy, would you use this as a headshot? I mean does the major facial fix make it worth it? May 07 10 11:34 pm Link it looks really fake...almost like a cartoon after. usually, most headshot & portrait u would want to make it natural if possible. May 07 10 11:49 pm Link so is that too much skin smoothing or something else? May 07 10 11:57 pm Link Here's the PS file: Edit: Removed because had virus?! May 08 10 12:22 am Link IMG 0171 wrote: I think too much skin smoothing. Looks too smooth, I don't shoot super models or for SI but here is my opinion. Worth 1/10 of a peso May 08 10 12:28 am Link You just need to being out some skin texture out, as the skin looks plastic and fake. Other than that, not bad. By the way, your link has a Virus Attached to it, that attempted to hijack my computer. May 08 10 12:31 am Link Ruben Sanchez wrote: !! Really?! Shit. Was it the file itself or just the host site? May 08 10 12:40 am Link FotoMark wrote: OK cool, thanks! Yea I think I def over did it for a head shot. I used a fashion retouch technique I found here a couple weeks ago, it works well, but I think here it's too much. May 08 10 12:43 am Link IMG 0171 wrote: When shooting, especially headshots, try to get some specularity (catchlights) in the eyes. Otherwise, they tend to look dead. May 08 10 12:44 am Link That, I don't know. When I clicked on download button, my anti-virus protection stopped it, saying it had a dangerous virus attached to it. Sorry I didn't copy it the info. If you have the psd file, run it through virus protection to make sure it's clean, give it another name, and repost it with the different name. May 08 10 12:52 am Link D Magi Visual Concepts wrote: Ok yea, I see what you're saying there. I'll add in photoshop this time, but def keep that in mind for next time. May 08 10 12:55 am Link Besides the skin issue as mentioned you have a pretty bad cutout around the right-ear, left-hand side of photo. May 08 10 01:00 am Link David Cajio Photography wrote: Yea I had noticed that I was gonna fix it with clone stamp, but I kept looking at the face and kept wondering if there was something wrong with how i restructured it that I forgot... May 08 10 01:37 am Link IMG 0171 wrote: A few things I noticed and you can take them for what they are: May 08 10 01:48 pm Link Like the other posters said, a headshot much look unretouched. I've seen casting directors skip over headshots that look retouched; they want to know what the person they're hiring actually looks like. This means we must be very tricky when we retouch. Here's an example of a retouch I did that I think would fool a casting director. Remember, it's got to look VERY natural.  May 09 10 05:10 pm Link FotoMark wrote: +1 May 11 10 08:44 am Link Thanks, you all have been very helpful May 16 10 01:21 am Link |
Shot looks pretty good out of camera. Brighten background a little, darken shirt, dodge under eyes get rid of dark circles, dodge face a teeny bit real low opacity. 10% I think it's a god shot, don't overwork it.
